It has been years since the man once known as Tarzan (Alexander Skarsgård) left the wildernesses of Africa behind for a gentrified life in London as John Clayton III, Lord Greystoke, with his darling spouse, Jane Porter (Margot Robbie) next to him. Presently, he has been welcomed back to the Congo to serve as an exchange emissary of Parliament, unconscious that he is a pawn in a dangerous joining of ravenousness and reprisal, planned by the degenerate Belgian Captain Rom (Christoph Waltz).